Japan: Joint NGO report to CEDAW on multiple forms of discrimination
February 7, 2020
For the adoption of a list of issues prior to reporting for Japan by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) during the 77th Pre-Sessional Working Group (2 – 6 March 2020), IMADR and its partner NGOs submitted a joint NGO report on multiple forms of discrimination against women in Japan on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, descent, nationality and/or disabilities. Download the report (English / Japanese)
NGOs listed below prepared the joint report.
- Forum on Minority Women (Women Division of Buraku Liberation League (BLL), Ainu Women Association, Apeuro Zainichi Korean Women Network and IMADR)
- Solidarity Network with Migrants Japan (SMJ)
- Japan Network Against Trafficking In Persons (JNATIP)
- Disabled People’s International (DPI) Women’s Network Japan
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